immodest
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The determination to find greatness in the ordinary gives “Song Sung Blue” a magical, unforced luminescence that much more immodest films usually lack.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 24, 2025
The original book was published in 1995 and it has — I'm being immodest in saying — but weathered well.
From Salon • Dec. 28, 2024
In the 1500s, metal fig leaves covered the genitals of statues like “David” when the Roman Catholic Church deemed nudity as immodest and obscene.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 30, 2023
Van Gaal will never be burdened by modesty about his achievements in the game but he has a lot to be immodest about.
From BBC • Dec. 3, 2022
Two days later, Singleton sat down in a windowless room in Brigham City, his immodest investigator’s surroundings, put one of the discs into the computer, and discovered what looked like nonsense.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
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